Fertilizer-distributer.



No. 755,160. PATENTE'D MAR. 22,1904.

M. MoLBOD.

FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 2, 1903.

2 SHEETS-SHEETL H0 MODEL.

26 Mllll 26 W Ft r15- Inventor Miam Witnesses S s 2 is W, S a Q v Attorney 1 1: uowus PETERS co. mom-Lima, Wumxam. n. c.

No. 755,160. PATENTED MAR. 22. 1904.

v MoLEOD. FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 2, 1903. N0 MODEL.

2 SHEET8SHEET 2- Inventor Attorney Witnesses g (3.

UNiTE STATES Patented March 22, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL MOLEOD, OF ISOM, GEORGIA.

FERTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,160, dated March 22 1904.

Application filed o e e 2, 1908. Serial No. 179,576. (110 model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

' the county of Brooks and State of Georgia,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fertilizer-Distributers; and I- do declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in fertilizer-distributers.

The object of the invention is to provide a fertilizer-distributing attachment for plows, cultivators, or other implements of this character.

A further object is to provide an attachment or device of this character which will be simple, strong, and durable, inexpensive, and well adapted to the use for which it is designed.

With these and other objects in View the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention, showing the same applied to a plow. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. '3 is a cross-sectional View through the fertilizer-hopper and the discharge-spout. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view through the tappetwheel, showing the endof the tappetlever in engagement therewith. Fig. 5 is a side elevation showing the invention applied to a cultivator. Fig. 6 is atop plan view of the same.

Referring to the drawings more particularly, 1 denotes a plow, which may be of any suitable form or construction.

2 denotes the plow-beam, to which is secured the lower ends of upwardly-projecting forwardly inclined standards or braces 3, which curve or flare outwardly at their upper enc s.

4 denotes a fertilizer-hopper the sides 5 of which are inclined or taper toward their lower ends and are provided with a curved bottom 6. The hopper 4 is pivotally supported between the standards 3 by means of short stubshafts or trunnions 7 which project from the sides of the same and engage bearing-slots 8, formed in the upper ends of the standards 3. The hopper is further supported by means of a tappet-lever 9,the inner end of which is forked, as at 10, and secured to the sides of the hopper. The outer end of the tappet-lever is loosely supported upon a tappet-wheel hereinafter described. The hopper 4 is provided at its lower end with a discharge-opening 12, which communicates with a discharge-spout 13, secured to and projecting from one side of the hopper. The discharge-opening 12 may be opened or closed to a greater or less degree to regulate the feed of the fertilizer therefrom by means of a gage bar or plate 14, which is slidably secured to one side of the hopper bymeans of a lug 15, which projects from said side and through a slot 16, formed in the bar or plate or lowered. In order that the plate 14 may be held in its adjusted positions to regulate the discharge of fertilizer from the hopper,

an adjusting rod or bolt 17 is provided, the

lower end of which is-oifset and secured to the plate 14 and the upper end of which passes through an aperture 18, formed in the lug 15, and is screw-threaded for the reception of a winged nut 19-, which bears on the upper side of the lug 15 and may be screwed or unscrewed on the rod 17 to support the plate 14 at any desired position. The lower end of the plate 14 is held in place and guided by means of a cross-bar 20, secured at its ends to the side of the hopper.

21 denotes two bearing-standards arranged at the forward end of the plow-beam and secured to the sides thereof and projecting aboye and below the same, as shown. The standards 21 are braced at their lower ends to thebeam by means of a brace 21. In the lower ends of the standards is journaled a transverse shaft 22, on one end of which is fixed a groundwheel 23, and on the opposite end is fixed a band-wheel 24. In the upper ends of the standards is journaled a transverse shaft 25, on one end of which is fixed a band-wheel 26, which is connected to the band-wheel 24 and driven by abelt 26. On the shaft 25,between 14, thereby permitting said bar to be raised the upper ends of the standards 21, is fixed a tappet-wheel 27, which consists of a centrallydisposed hub 28, upon which is fixed two disks 29, spaced apart and arranged parallel with each other. Between said disks and connecting the same near their outer edges is arranged a series of pins 30, which form tappets, upon which the free end of the tappetlever 9 is supported. The rotation of the wheel 27 causes the tappet-pins 80 to successively engage the end of the tappet-lever, thereby vibrating the same, which will impart to the hopper a jarring motion, causing the contents of the same to discharge through the feed-opening. There may be any number of the tappet-pins arranged between the disks,the number of which will cause the lever 9 and the hopper to be more or less rapidly moved, as will be understood.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the hopper 4 and the mechanism for operating the same are shown applied to a cultivator, the arrangement and operation, however, being the same as hereinbefore described, and further description of the parts is not deemed necessary.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A distributer comprising a frame-beam having a ground implement at the rear thereof, rear bearing-standards rising from the rear portion of the beam and provided with open bearings, front bearing-standards extending above and below the beam at the front portion thereof and arranged on opposite sides of said beam, transverse shafts journaled in the upper and lower ends of the said front standards above and .below the beam, a groundwheel mounted upon one end of the lower transverse shaft, a power-wheel upon the opposite end of said shaft, a power-wheel upon one end of the upper transverse shaft, a connection between the two power-wheels to communicate motion from one to the other, a tappet-wheel on the upper transverse shaft between the upper ends of the standards, and a hopper provided with trunnions at its rear engaging the said open bearings in the rear standard and with a tappet-lever at its front projecting forward and engaging said tappetwheel, substantially as described. 7

2. A distributer comprising a supportingframe having a ground implement at the rear andaground-wheel at the front thereof, a 110pper having a pivotal connection at its rear with the frame, and provided with a side outlet, atappet-wheel upon the frame above the ground-wheel and driven therefrom, atappetlever coacting with said tappet-wheel to support the front of the hopper and impart vibratory motion thereto, a vertically-adjustable longitudinally-slotted controlling-plate governing the side outlet of the hopper, an apertured lug projecting from the hopper through the slot in the plate, an adjustingrod having a bent lower end connected to the plate below the bottom of the slot in said plate and having a threaded upper end extending through the aperture in the lug, and an adjusting-screw upon said threaded end of the rod, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MICHAEL MCLEOD. Witnesses:

NANCY MoLEoD, R. B. ELIsoN. 

